Updates On 9th Feb 2014

MIGHTY MURPHY ESCAPES MACHETE & MAKES MERRY NEW LIFE

Written by Janice Cabral of Dogs in Brazil based in Rio de Janeiro https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dogs-in-Brazil/199454320100596

“A few days after we arrived at our new house the doorbell rang and I recognized one of the two men there as the guy that drove the truck to transport our dogs to the new house. He was with an older man. I answered the door and they told me the story of Murphy. Murphy had been hacked with a machete and was wondering around the streets with her ribs exposed and a large flap of rotting skin hanging down.

The older man had found her and lucky for Murphy he was a real dog lover. He took Murphy to a local vet and was paying for her treatment there. They said she may not survive. She had been pregnant but lost the four puppies. The vet thought it was due to the strong antibiotic and the shock. They said right now she was still fighting for her life and was not doing well. The older guy wanted to find her a home because he only had a small garden with eight dogs and he was 71 and couldn�t cope with anymore. The driver of the truck had suggested they try us to see if we could take her. Of course we agreed.

Murphy was at the vet clinic for more than forty days and had three surgeries. She came home to us with stitches still and had to wear a collar/cone to prevent her biting at the stitches for a further few weeks. The wound was over twenty centimeters and extended under her belly too.

It is difficult to comprehend the type of person who has the capacity to do this to a dog. I guess here we never will. The thought occurred to me that perhaps she was captured from the streets or even stolen by the people here who practice a type of witchcraft. It is called �Macumba� here. Black animals are beheaded and their blood is drunk during rituals practiced by these people. I wondered if somehow she had slipped her lead and they chopped her with the machete in an effort to get her back in order to die during their meaningless ritual. This is not uncommon in Brazil and one woman here was convicted of killing well over one thousand animals, whilst posing as a rescuer in order to suck there blood out and sell it to practioners of Macumba. She had become rich doing this. She received no legal castigation whatsoever and animal protectors are still trying to get justice for the thousands of animals that she killed. We will never really know the circumstances of the attack.

Murphy is a super friendly puppy of less than a year old. She holds no grudges against humanity at all. She was almost better from her attack when she almost died for the third time. She had unbeknown to us tick disease as well as the terrible wound. She began to bleed internally and needed an emergency blood transfusion. her blood count red cells were at number 12 and 14 is critical normal is 40. She was dying for the third time. She had a blood transfusion and made it. The vet treating her said she was a real fighter and boy did she want to live. She�s a wiggly happy puppy now. More great photos of Murphy here http://harmonyfund.org/the-great-animal-rescue/story?id=1201

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